MTA or Message Transfer Agent is the e-mail dealing system in Exchange environment. This sends, receives and delivers mails between servers. Also, this proves valuable for addressing and routing information. But, in few of the cases, the service may fail to start with the following error message:
“Could not start the Microsoft Exchange Message Transfer Agent service on \\ServerName. Error 2140: An internal Windows NT error occurred.”
Network administrator is experiencing problems with MTA and so, as recommended, if you run MTACHECK to know if the MTA is corrupted or got crashed, another error message may flash out, stating:
“Database contains serious errors and cannot be automatically repaired.”
The application event log is also helpful in getting the descriptive information about the Exchange Server problem. So here you get Event IDs like 2127, 2152, 2155, 2219 and 2187, which directly or indirectly points towards Exchange database corruption as of the Exchange server recovery failure, object accessing errors, failure in reading database and so on.
Exchange database is corrupt and hence is inaccessible. However, you can try out the registry editing way and then specify the correct path to the MTA database files. So locate the following registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeMTA\Parameters\MTA Database Path
Type the correct path to MTA database files in Value data box by double clicking the entry. Verify the correct location for the MTA Run directory by locating and
double clicking the following registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeMTA\Parameters\MTA Run Directory
If you still don’t find Exchange database accessible, this is a sure corruption case which needs correct scanning and hence Exchange server repair to cure. EDB repair is the process, applicable through third party software which have the read-only conduct, interactive interface and great EDB recovery abilities to help the users.
Be sure to have Exchange server recovery through the trusted and reputed source as an insufficient one will bring damages to the database.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most powerful utility to scan and repair the corrupted Exchange database with the efficient scanning EDB repair algorithms. Easy to use and safe to repair, this Exchange server repair application is found to be compatible with Exchange server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
This EDB repair tool is meant for all the database objects including e-mails, notes, journal, tasks, appointments and others.
